Family Drama · fiction
Four Dollars and a Family Lesson
People in Milwaukee usually recognized me before I recognized them. That was useful. It meant conversations became shorter when I entered a room. Arguments stopped. Voices lowered. Men who had spent half an hour threatening each other suddenly remembered they had somewhere else to be. Fear, when properly maintained, was...
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- Family Drama
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- Adult readers
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- 6
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- fiction
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